CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched two communications satellites at 10:29 a.m. EDT Wednesday, but failed to land the rocket's first stage booster on a barge in the...

I reported about a rocket launch for the first time on Nov. 22, 1989 from an unlikely spot, the rooftop of a tall building in downtown Raleigh, N.C.
NASA has no launch facilities in North Carolina
It...